Former Prime Minister Adnan Badran said that the first priority that the government needs to work on to achieve economic reform is to expand the middle class in society by providing job and employment opportunities for citizens to reduce unemployment and poverty, noting that this is achieved by controlling government spending and removing obstacles. In front of investment and the growth of the private sector.
Badran, during his sponsorship of the opening of the Administrative Reform Conference in Jordan, which was organized by the Jordanian Academics Association in cooperation with Yarmouk University, in the Dead Sea region, in the presence of the Association’s President, Yarmouk University Board of Trustees, Dr. An integrated and comprehensive administrative reform, indicating that the priority in the Renaissance Project and the administrative reform plan requires providing complete and integrated security in the water, energy, food, medicine, health, education, information and tourism sectors to develop smart human capabilities for self-reliance, adding that the focus is on building smart human capital. And its outputs from scientific research, creativity, innovation and leadership for change and modernization.
He pointed out that the first centenary of the Jordanian state was characterized by building the pillars of the state with its various institutions, and building infrastructure in the political, economic and social sectors. However, the modernity that took place in these sectors was not accompanied by good governance and management of human, natural and financial resources, which affected development with distortions in mismanagement and corruption.
Badran said, "It is necessary to develop an action plan for an integrated and comprehensive administrative reform as a renaissance project without slowness, shame or apprehension through what he called the "Ten Commandments", most notably making amendments in the Civil Service Commission to make employment according to merit, efficiency and equal opportunities, and to make amendments to the Labor Law. To terminate the services of negligent government employees.
It was suggested that the appointment be made based on the results achieved by competitors for jobs in the theoretical and practical exams for the job and not according to seniority as is currently being done, in order to invest in human resources with high capabilities to achieve renaissance, and to subject those who are not fortunate to training courses in the fields of employment to raise their skills and align them so that they can apply for vacant positions in the future.
Badran called for eliminating bureaucracy and simplifying government procedures in its ministries and institutions so that the decision is taken within a specified period of time, eliminating the policy of citizen reviewing several government institutions to complete his treatment, in addition to ending the services of “officials who are ill with the lack of courage or the ability to take appropriate decisions in a timely manner.”
Badran described wasta and nepotism as “the chronic Jordanian national disease and the summit of administrative corruption,” and that its elimination is done through automating government transactions and linking them electronically, indicating that this will ensure “a distance from the personal mood of officials,” and thus can address the imbalances and ensure the fair and effective implementation of the laws and regulations in force. .
Badran added that building the state in its second centenary also requires the development of a new dynamic course for universities, to be opened in the evening for continuing education and training in the areas of management and the development of cognitive and technical skills and thinking skills to adapt to the requirements of development and society.
For his part, Al-Omari said that the Jordanian Academics Association, in cooperation with Yarmouk University, was keen to have a role in presenting a vision for the hoped-for administrative reform in Jordan through this conference, which identified some of the main components of this reform.
He added this vision is represented in the institutional structure and future skills of human resources, good governance, anti-corruption and digital transformation, artificial intelligence, administrative environment, leadership, empowerment and delegation of authority, indicating that the association has chosen speakers for these components who have knowledge and academic experience and the practice of general administrative work.
Al-Omari indicated that organizing this conference comes in response to the call for political, administrative and economic reform, through holding seminars, lectures and conferences on hot issues of concern to Jordanian society.
He continued: As the current talk about political reform and administrative reform was at the top of the priorities to bring about change towards a better society, and accordingly this conference came in response to popular calls and calls for political, administrative and economic reform, coinciding with the national trend to form committees for this purpose.
Massad said, when we talk about administrative reform in Jordan, we recall directly the royal visions of His Majesty the King, which focus on the issues of reform in its various types and fields, and on top of it is "political, economic and administrative reform", as His Majesty emphasized in more than one place and meeting that it is the way to confident passage. To the bicentennial of the Jordanian state towards the future.
He added, His Majesty clearly and frankly emphasized the need for administrative and economic reform. Indeed, His Majesty has preceded successive governments in proposing and proposing solutions, and laying hands on shortcomings and gaps, believing that Jordan has become more in need of reform, to complete the process of growth and development.
Massad stressed that the health and development of institutions depends on their good management, directing their competencies, and activating their resources. Talking about administrative reform takes many axes and directions, most notably: putting an end to government bureaucracy and red tape, impeding economic development, deepening partnership with the private sector, and the existence of performance programs A clear measure of administrative and economic achievement, transparency, fighting corruption and nepotism, the language of interests, and strengthening oversight tools in state institutions, to ensure effective and transparent performance, and thus ensure the efficient and effective functioning of the government apparatus.
He continued: The administrative reform process is not an administrative decision that is applied in a hurry, and we reap its results overnight; Administrative reform is a long and protracted process, and this is what forces us to be objective, so we do not exaggerate the expectations of quick outcomes from the reform process, in order to avoid frustration in some implementation stages that collide with resistance to change by some of the human resources involved in this process, and administrative reform is a relatively long path. It requires wisdom, patience, patience, hard work, and solidarity between the various episodes. Failure in some stages or in some steps should not deter us from continuing to move forward, and we must not allow frustration to hinder us from continuing. Rather, we must make bridges and incentives for continuous review of performance. Benefiting from mistakes and correcting the path with more determination, so that reform becomes a well-established culture and not a temporary project.
Massad stressed that administrative reform is a national necessity and a culture based on neutralizing administrative and institutional selfishness and seeking to make the administrative behavior of employees responsible and objective, and based on organizational and administrative loyalty, so that Jordan, which we always aspire and hope for, becomes a model to follow as desired by His Majesty the King.
In its sessions, which were attended by academics and experts from various national authorities and institutions, the conference discussed issues of institutional structure presented by Dr. Khalif Al-Khawaldeh, future skills for human resources presented by Dr. Refaat Al-Faouri, the administrative environment presented by Dr. Mohieldin Touq, governance and anti-corruption presented by Dr. Ahmed Al-Zoubi, and leadership, empowerment and delegation Power was presented by Dr. Khaled Al-Omari, and administrative reform was presented by Dr. Ahmed Battah.
